Specialist Exam Access Arrangement Assessor

About Us:

Newham College London, now merged with NewVIc Sixth Form College, is the largest post-16 education provider in Newham. With campuses in East Ham, Stratford, Plaistow, and the London City Institute of Technology (LCIoT) in Canning Town, we serve over 11,000 students across a range of pathways - including 16-18 study, adult education, apprenticeships, and higher education.

With over 800 staff, four main campuses, and an annual turnover of £60 million, Newham College is one of the borough's largest employers and plays a key role in driving local economic and community development.

The Role.

We are looking for a passionate and skilled Specialist Exams Access Arrangement Assessor to play a key role in supporting our students.

The Specialist Exams Access Arrangements Assessor will lead the College's specialist assessment function for Exam Access Arrangements across all campuses, personally undertaking JCQ-compliant assessments, ensuring the quality and audit readiness of supporting evidence, and line managing the Exam Access Arrangements Officer.

To identify, assess, and recommend appropriate examination access arrangements for students with disabilities, learning difficulties, medical conditions, or special educational needs in accordance with Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) regulations. The postholder will work collaboratively with curriculum, support, examinations, and safeguarding teams to ensure students are able to demonstrate their knowledge and skills fairly and equitably.

Key responsibilities.

• Administering, scoring and interpreting appropriate standardised assessments for students with exam access needs and completing all aspects of JCQ Forms (currently 8's, 9's and 8RF)
• Work systematically to strict external JCQ deadlines for exam arrangements, including managing own workload and working collaboratively with stakeholders to ensure all learners exam needs are met.
• Conduct specialist assessments for examination access arrangements in line with current JCQ regulations
• Gather and analyse evidence from educational records, diagnostic reports, teaching staff, support staff, and external professionals.
• Assess students for arrangements such as:
  Extra time
  Reader
  Scribe
  Computer reader
  Word processor
  Rest breaks
  Prompter
  Alternative rooming arrangements
• Line management responsibility of the EAA officer to ensure workflows are managed and changing exam needs are recorded correctly in college systems.
• Produce clear and accurate assessment reports and recommendations.
• Maintain detailed records of assessments, outcomes, and supporting evidence.
• Ensure appropriate evidence of needs is stored on college systems in preparation for internal and external audits.
• Work across all college sites ensuring arrangements are in place at all Newham college sites.
• Keeping procedures aligned with annual JCQ regulatory change

Our Ideal candidate should have the following qualifications, skills and experience.

• Appropriate Level 7 Exam Access Arrangement Assessment certificate
• Experience of assessing and ensuring the implementation of
  exam arrangements in a college or Secondary school.
• Experience of delivering to externally set, tight deadlines
• Extensive experience working in Special Educational Needs
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage, motivate and support learners from diverse backgrounds.
• A genuine passion for developing people and sharing your industry knowledge, with a commitment to learner success, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Safeguarding

Interview date either 12th or 13th October 2026

Safeguarding of Children and Vulnerable Adults

In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education All employment offers are subject employment checks. These include (some of which are dependent on the role and the individual): Enhanced DBS including Children's Barred List check, DfE teaching/management Barred List check, on-line searches, overseas criminal record check, evidence of identity and Right to Work in the UK, satisfactory references, confirmation of medical fitness, evidence of relevant qualifications and a check of previous employment history.

The College is committed to safeguarding and promotes the welfare of all learners and expects its staff to share this commitment. You will be required to become familiar with the College's policies, and comply with the requirements to safeguard and protect the welfare of children and young people and vulnerable adults. All staff are asked to complete mandatory training in relation to KCSIE and other key areas, and to read the relevant policies.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

The College has a strong commitment to working towards the implementation of equality of opportunity in both service delivery and employment. The College's mission and strategic objectives directly support this aim. All employees are required to actively support the development, dissemination and implementation of this aim and related policies and programmes.

Recruitment Process

The salary for this position is inclusive of London weighting. Please note that we advertise our salaries on a range to indicate the trajectory of progression that can be made. Appointments are usually made at the start of the salary range.

We regret that we are unable to respond to every application. Therefore, if you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume your application has not been successful.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early, should we receive sufficient applications.

**Please note that we do not accept CVs**